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AI FOR ACADEMIC WRITING ASSESSMENT
Artificial intelligence (AI) has bottlenecked the established operational procedures by swapping them imperiously. It has also embarked its vigorous presence in academia. Contemporary research is eyeing on the generative aspect of AI with successful results. Attributing its significance, this investigation will delve into the area of AI for assessment purposes; precisely, assessment of English language learners' writing abilities in Essay writing through a purposefully developed AI app. The population for the specific enquiry will be Saudi Arabian students. The sample will be collected in two phases. Initially, the plan is to chose 100 Bachelor level students enrolled in an English compulsory course in semester 1 at 5 different universities to be the part of the investigation. For a valid data collection, a placement test is planned to be executed from all the participants. Later they will be placed into a focused group of equal ability to maintain validity of the sample. According to their course content, the learners will be trained on essay writing prompts only. After a month, a writing milestone assessment will be conducted, which will consist of an essay with 50 marks. Further,10 raters will be assigned for rating in two groups. 5 raters will assessed learners manually, whereas the other group of 5 raters will be using AI developed app as a preliminary method for assessing essays. IELTS writing rubric is planned to be used for assessment by both groups of raters. All the raters will assess 10 essays. It is presumed that results will show the raters who used AI as their preliminary assessment as more consistent, efficient, reliable, and valid in their assessment in comparison to orthodox raters (without AI app). Moreover, they will be also be providing comprehensive feedback to the learners. This research can serve as one of he benchmarks in AI into assessment area.